Even though President Bush, to my mind, is the worst president America has ever had -- and that we still have yet to realize just how much damage he has done to our foreign relations as well as our domestic politics -- I have to raise eyebrows at how the mainstream media have spun Bush's latest actions with regard to torture and the CIA.

The AP:

WASHINGTON - President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.

Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of CIA detainees, on Friday ordered that agency interrogators comply with the Geneva Conventions against torture.

AFP:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Friday forbid the CIA to torture suspected terrorists in its once-secret detention and interrogation program but was criticized for his vague, "trust us" approach.

Bloomberg:

July 20 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush signed an executive order today barring the Central Intelligence Agency from torturing terrorism suspects or subjecting them to ``cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.''

So what is the "news that's fit to print"?

And the media moguls, pundits and workers sitting in Aeron chairs decide what is the truth, pre-chewed for the rest of us. And we're not supposed to taste their spit.

What is the truth?

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